John Babsone Lane Soule (1815–1891) was an American publisher, minister, poet and professor.
[1] Soule is credited with using the phrase "Go West, young man, go West" in an 1851 Terre Haute Express (Indiana) editorial, 14 years before a similar phrase was famously used by Horace Greeley in reference to western expansion in North America.
[3] A research project from the History Department at Indiana University in 2004 concluded the Soule attribution was based on a satirical account published in 1890.
[4] Soule taught at Vigo Collegiate Institute[5] and Blackburn University in Illinois.
Soule communicated his support of his son's western journey.